Sunspots, GDP and the stock market

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1508-1514

  Modis, Theodore ^a  

^a Growth Dynamics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GDP forecast; Stock market forecast; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FORECASTING;

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; STOCK MARKET; SUNSPOTS;

MARKETING;

CORRELATION; DATABASE; FORECASTING METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; MARKET;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548302065     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Wall J.V., and Jenkins C.R. Practical Statistics for Astronomers (2003), Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers, Cambridge
2. The Coming Economic Collapse of 2006: Trends, Predictions, & Prognostications for 2004-2006 and Beyond by Michael Wells Mandeville (Paperback - Jul 2003).
3. The monthly DJIA data since 1-OCT-1928 have been obtained from the website of Yahoo Finance at http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI&a=09&b=1&c=1928&d =03&e=25&f=2007&g=m (Updated 2007/03/31).
4. The monthly mean sunspot numbers have been obtained from the National Geophysical Data Center at Boulder, CO, see ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SUNSPOT_NUMBERS/MONTHLY (Updated 2007/03/01).
5. The solar cycle prediction is provided by NASA at http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml (Updated 2007/04/01).
6. The US GDP data have been obtained from U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis at http://www.bea.gov/index.htm (Updated at the end of 2006).